Erm, do people want to use VB for programming libraries and core system tools? (I thought we're talking about such case, as Go authors clearly stated that's the

Erm, do people want to use VB for programming libraries and core system tools? (I thought we're talking about such case, as Go authors clearly stated that's their target). Go competes rather with C/C++ than with VB or any Lisp. C'mon guys, you don't have to bash any language or solution only because somebody wants to use it for some reason (which may be different than yours). Having Go in a toolchain traditionally reserved to gcc will only make things better and will NOT threaten a position of your shiny new high level language. I wish Go people success. They are smart hackers from the ol' days.